Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center confirmed the death of the child on Wednesday.

“Willa Shine Clark was a bright light in our lives. She illuminated many of the paths that she crossed. She died on Wednesday, March 26 as the result of injuries suffered under tragic circumstances on Monday," Cara and Michael Clark said in a statement regarding their daughter's death.

The girl was found hanging by her coat while playing outside of the home day care in Enfield on Monday.

Several children were playing outside when the girl’s coat got stuck on a branch and began choking her, police said.

Police did not identify the day care they responded to Monday afternoon.

“It appears the child had gotten hung up on a lean-to-type stick with her jacket. It may have gotten caught and that cut of her airway,” said Chief Richard Crate Jr., of the Enfield Police Department.

The day care provider had stepped away for just a few moments, police said.

“She had another child that was inside so she had gone inside,” Crate said. “She was kind of going back and forth, is what she reported, and so she was not there when this accident happened.”

The day care was operating without a license, according to the Child Care Licensing Unit of the Department of Health and Human Services.

IT'S LEFT A FOUR-YEAR-OLD FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE. OFFICIALS TOLD US THE DAYCARE WAS OPERATING WITHOUT A LICENSE. POLICE SAY ON MONDAY A FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS PLAYING OUTSIDE WHEN HER JACKET SNAG ON A PIECE OF WOOD WHICH CAUSED HER TO BEGIN CHOKING. POLICE SAY THE DAYCARE PROVIDER WAS NOT ABLE TO REACH THE GIRL UNTIL AFTER SHE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. THE PROVIDER PERFORMED CPR. THE CHILD LICENSING UNIT SAYS THERE WAS A LICENSE DAYCARE AT THE ADDRESS, BUT IT LAPSED SEVEN YEARS AGO. IF THE REPORT IS CORRECT AND SHE HAS BEEN CARRYING FOR HER FIVE CHILDREN, SHE WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO BE LICENSED. SHE IS NOT LICENSED. THE STATE SAYS ONCE POLICE WRAP UP THEIR INVESTIGATION, IT WILL ISSUE AN ORDER TO CEASE OPERATIONS.